Tumblr just confirmed (again) that it will be enabling ActivityPub (atomicpoet.org)

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[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 months ago

Did they bring back the porn? I thought it was banned.

[-] DrSlippyNips@eviltoast.org 5 points 5 months ago

It's banned but there's still a lot of porn on there, lol.

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago

Somehow, porn returned.

[-] Valon_Blue@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

Porn finds a way....--Goldblum

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

[-] ekZepp@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

kof! kof! lemmynsfw KOF!

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago

Careful, I think you are choking on something.

[-] ekZepp@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

It's fine now; I've taken a sip from my drink.

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago

Hmmmm 🤔

[-] DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

They brought back tasteful nudity, mostly.

[-] RedStrider@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

i imagine that by "ActivityPub for Tumblr" they mean a buried option in your settings to monodirectionly bridge your blog to ap

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 3 points 5 months ago

Side thought: what are they gonna do with content that violates the site's rules?

For example, knowing Tumblr audience and current rules, many will rush for uncensored NSFW content, and Fedi's got plenty of that.

[-] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Thats nice to hear. I still have a queue to post every day. The site has its problems but at least the community arent bootlicking nazi assholes. To me its currently a small oasis on the internet.

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

migrating my entire dying website to wordpress so I can use a protocol that is not only open source (negating the entire need to migrate to wordpress) but will immediately defederate with anything even vaguely corporate is surely something

expect the entire domain to be hijacked by a supplements Ponzi scheme by the weekend.

[-] octoblade@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Tumblr is owned by Automattic, which runs WordPress.com. Tumblr migrating to WordPress is not a surprise in the slightest.

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 2 points 5 months ago

Unlike Threads, I kind of even don't mind

Tumblr is generally cute, and while we should be on the watch still, I think it could enrich the Fediverse community.

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago

Well, I was thinking the same, but the CEO of the company that currently owns Tumblr recently went on a very strange ego trip burning a lot of bridges and generally making an ass of himself, so I have become more cautious.

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago

I hope it's implemented better than Facebook's version with the ability to see other Fediverse posts in Tumblr and follow right from the app. I always liked Misskey/Starkey because I felt it was the next generation of Tumblr but it would be great to see more Misskey posters in Tumblr.

[-] Aurelius@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I’m surprised it has taken them so long to switch to Wordpress given that they are owned by the same company

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

They couldn't log in because of the WP Engine checkbox

[-] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

They're wanting threads users to interact with their site.

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I didn't realize they were switching over to WordPress to be honest.

[-] thejml@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Nobody should be switching TO Wordpress in 2025… or 2023 or 2020 even. But definitely not 2025.

[-] DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

Tumblr ha no choice, WordPress bought it years ago

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 months ago

matt's an ass and all, but the service on the .com does have a decent track record afaik.

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

No longer after the drama of the last few months. Stay as far away from WordPress as is humanly possible.

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[-] ekZepp@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 0 points 5 months ago

https://wip.tumblr.com/post/773574776721702912/about-a-year-ago-wordpress-ceo-matt-mullenweg

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 1 points 5 months ago

How does that person think ATProto would prevent monopolization? ATProto is effectively controlled by a singular corporate entity. It already is a monopolized protocol.

Bluesky says they created ATProto because account portability is a problem on ActivityPub - which it 100% is. But account porting is something that's still being worked on for ActivityPub. If Bluesky actually cared about a decentralized platform, they would have contributed toward ActivityPub's development by helping to create the account porting tools. Instead, they created a new network that they own and control, and have gaslit their users into believing is "decentralized".

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 0 points 5 months ago

Tumblr is alive?

[-] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

It never died. Even with the killing of porn it just kept going. The userbase actively despises the owners and will keep it alive through this hatred. Through all owners.

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago

Some of us never left.

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Is Tumblr still a thing? I thought it died after the christofascists banned porn. I haven't been back since that day and heard it had died.

[-] AgentDalePoopster@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Tumblr is absolutely still a thing, my wife uses it all the time.

[-] umbraroze@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I've posted photos daily for 2 years now and I'm getting reasonable levels of likes/reposts. Judging from the stuff I've heard from other folks, these levels have fallen a lot from the site's heyday, but there's still a whole bunch of users. Just a hunch, but I guess the Twitter/Facebook shenanigans probably drove more people back to Tumblr, too.

[-] RamenJunkie@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I started using it regularly after many previous failed attempts when Twitter died. Same for Pinterest oddly. I use them for similar but distinct things.

[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Its extremely popular now. Never really died, just became less relevant. Automattic bought it, and matt (nutcase who owns wordpress) said he'd add activitypub support.